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There's no excuse for Jedi Survivor not to compress it's assets. Respawn is skipping last-gen consoles with this game. The modern consoles have significantly more CPU power at their disposal, and dedicated hardware for decompressing texture and sound data.

There is no excuse for them to be shipping a 150GB game on the PS5 when so many cross-gen games are 40-60% smaller on PS5 than PS4

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It's easy to say something like that, but as mentioned above, games are generally duct taped together at the literal last minute and it's easy to miss things that, to outsiders, seem obvious. The difference is that we aren't looking at literally every piece of the game and rushing to fix as many bugs as possible, like the devs, we're just looking at the file size.

Of course, the other possibility is that they were aware of it, but it was somewhere in a long list of things that they would have liked to fix, but did not have time for.

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